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“Nobody, in my view, has the right to have 12 children or even three”

“To our minds, the fundamental cure, reducing the scale of the human enterprise (including the size of the population) to keep its aggregate consumption within the carrying capacity of Earth is obvious but too much neglected or denied,” Ehrlich wrote.

Ehrlich spelled out exactly what he meant in an interview with a liberal blog/news site called Raw Story.

“Giving people the right to have as many people, as many children that they want is, I think, a bad idea,” the Web site quoted Ehrlich as saying.

“Nobody, in my view, has the right to have 12 children or even three unless the second pregnancy is twins,” Ehrlich added.

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Hey progressives, this is where you’re headed. Feel free to gloat for awhile on the obvious superiority of what he says, but tomorrow your assignment will be to figure out how to take that right away from people. And you can’t make it a financial penalty, because then only the poor can’t have extra kids, and that would be racist and everything. And you can’t just give forced abortions, because you won’t catch them all in time and we’ll end up with at least some extra kids. No, you’re going to have to do forced sterilizations and/or get permission from the government to copulate. And don’t think you can just swear by Gloria Steinhem to use birth control either, because you can’t be trusted, and anyway sometimes it doesn’t work.

It’s amazing how lightly progressives say things like not having a “right” to children. The reality of that is just bizzaro Orwellian.

Mitt Romney had one of Ehrlich’s protege’s as his advisor on the environment. John Holdren…
For the life of me, I cannot figure out why people of good morals did not find Romney a compelling presidential candidate.

twelve kids is a lot, and not many people have that many. but three? that’s a completely normal number, in fact, lots of people out there have more than three. this is so ridiculous. does this moron actually think he can convince most of america that three kids is too much? wow, just wow…

Given that Ehrlich has never once been correct in his entire life as a so-called “public intellectual,” why does he even still get attention? If he had any shame, he would have curled up and disappeared after his humiliation by Julian Simon.